When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Ann BrasharesIt was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.
Ann BrasharesYou know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
Ann BrasharesAs much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Ann Brashares